New Vice Chancellor Nigel Harris will be duly installed as the Seventh Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies on February 26, 2005. The ceremony will take place at the JFK Auditorium, UWI, St. Augustine. Vice Chancellor Harris is a Professor of Medicine who has been educated at Howard and Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the West Indies. He served as Dean of the Medical School at the Morehouse University before taking up the offer to serve as Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies. Born in Guyana, Professor Harris is the son of noted novelist Wilson Harris and the nephew of another writer Jan Carew.